Method of controlling printer using bluetooth function of mobile terminal

• US 20080090525A1
• Filed: 04/05/2007
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Joo, Young Seoung
• Application Number:
  US11/784,119
• Publication Number:
  US 20080090525A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

A method of controlling a printer using a Bluetooth function of a mobile terminal is provided, including forming, when printing is to be performed, a Bluetooth communication link between the mobile terminal and a headset and forming a communication link between the headset and the printer; selecting data to be printed, using the mobile terminal; setting a print format, using the mobile terminal, transmitting the print format to the headset, transmitting the print format from the headset to the printer, and setting the print format as a print format of the printer; and transmitting the selected data from the mobile terminal to the headset and printing the data received through the headset with the set format.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a printer using a Bluetooth function of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

forming a Bluetooth communication link between a mobile terminal having a Bluetooth communication function and a printer to which a headset for performing a dongle function is connected;

selecting data to be printed;

setting a print format for the selected data and transmitting the print format to the headset for transmission of the print format to the printer; and

transmitting the selected data to the headset for transmission of the selected data to the printer.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising searching for a printer to which a headset for performing Bluetooth communication is connected when the mobile terminal enters a Bluetooth communication mode.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising requesting an intrinsic number of the searched printer,

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising receiving the requested intrinsic number of the printer through the headset.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining whether the received intrinsic number of the printer is registered; and

registering, if the received intrinsic number of the printer is not registered, the received intrinsic number of the printer.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether transmission of the selected data is complete.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising displaying, if transmission of the selected data is complete, a transmission completion message for informing that transmission of the selected data is complete.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the print format comprises a size of a paper for performing the printing, a print resolution, and a number of copies.

9. A method of controlling a printer using a Bluetooth function of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

selecting data to be printed;

forming a Bluetooth communication link between a mobile terminal having a Bluetooth communication function and a printer to which a headset for performing a dongle function is connected;

setting a print format for the selected data and transmitting the print format to the headset for transmission of the print format to the printer; and

transmitting the selected data to the headset for transmission of the selected data to the printer.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising searching for a printer to which a headset for performing Bluetooth communication is connected when the mobile terminal enters a Bluetooth communication mode.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising requesting an intrinsic number of the searched printer.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving the requested intrinsic number of the printer through the headset.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

determining whether the received intrinsic number of the printer is registered; and

registering, if the received intrinsic number of the printer is not registered, the received intrinsic number of the printer.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising determining whether transmission of the selected data is completed.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising displaying, if transmission of the selected data is complete, a transmission completion message for informing that transmission of the selected data is complete.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the print format comprises a size of a paper for performing the printing, a print resolution, and a number of copies.

17. A method of controlling a printer using a Bluetooth function of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

forming, when printing is to be performed, a Bluetooth communication link between the mobile terminal and a headset, and forming a communication link between the headset and the printer;

selecting data to be printed, using the mobile terminal;

setting a print format, using the mobile terminal, transmitting the print format to the headset, transmitting the print format from the headset to the printer, and setting the print format as a print format of the printer; and

transmitting the selected data from the mobile terminal to the headset and printing the data received through the headset using the printer with the set format.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising receiving a registration request of the printer from the headset by the mobile terminal;

requesting, by the mobile terminal, an intrinsic number of the printer connected to the headset and sending the request for the intrinsic number of the printer by the headset to the printer;

transmitting the intrinsic number from the printer to the headset according to the request from the headset and transmitting the intrinsic number transmitted by the printer from the headset to the mobile terminal; and

registering the transmitted intrinsic number of the printer in the mobile terminal.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising ending the Bluetooth communication link between the mobile terminal and the headset.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising ending the communication link between the headset and the printer.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the communication link is one of a wired connection and a wireless connection.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein the print format comprises a size of a paper for performing the printing, a print resolution, and a number of copies.